Picturesque America. 2 Magnificent Folio Vols. Wonderful USA Scenery Engravings

Description: Picturesque America. 2 Magnificent Folio Vols. Wonderful USA Scenery Engravings Picturesque America or The Land We Live In A Delineation by Pen and Pencil THE MOUNTAINS, RIVERS , FORESTS, WATER-FALLS, SHORES, CANONS, VALLEYS, CITIES, AND OTHER PICTURESQUE FEATURES OF OUR COUNTRY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL AND WOOD, BY EMINENT AMERICAN ARTISTS Edited by William Cullen Bryant New York: Appleton and Company, 1872. (V1) and 1874 (V2). First editions. Two volumes. Hardcovers. Folios bound in lavishly decorated blue leather-like cloth with embossed gilt decorations, emblems, and lettering, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page in each volume. Illustrated with 49 steel-engraved, tissue-protected plates on thick stock, in addition to hundreds of steel and wood engraved plates and in-text illustrations. V1: 568 pages; V2: 576 pages. "The volumes display both steel and wood engravings based on the paintings of some of the best American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, such as John Frederick Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, James David Smillie, John William Casilear, Thomas Moran, A. C. Warren, Harry Fenn, David Johnson, Granville Perkins, John Douglas Woodward et al…" The work was originally issued in semi-monthly parts which were sent to subscribers. Upon completion, the parts were bound into the two volumes Contents of Volume I On the Coast of Maine St. John's and Ocklawah Rivers, Florida Up and Down the Columbia Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee Richmond, Scenic and Historic Natural Bridge, Virginia Delaware Water-Gap Mauch Chunk On the Savannah The French Broad The White Mountains Neversink Highlands St. Augustine, Florida Charleston and Its Suburbs Weyer's Cave, Virginia Scenes on the Brandywine Cumberland Gap Watkins Glen Scenes in Eastern Long Island The Lower Mississippi Mackinac Our Great National Park Harper's Ferry Scenes in Virginia Newport West Virginia Lake Superior Northern California Niagara Trenton Falls The Yosemite Falls Providence and Vicinity South Shore of Lake Erie On the Coast of California Contents of Volume II Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson Philadelphia and Its Suburbs Northern New Jersey Valley of the Connecticut Baltimore and Environs The Catskills The Juniata On the Ohio The Plains and the Sierras The Susquehanna Boston Lake George and Lake Champlain Mount Mansfield Valley of the Housatonic The Upper Mississippi Valley of the Genesee St. Lawrence and the Saguenay Eastern Shore The Adirondack Region The Connecticut Shore of the Sound Lake Memphremagag The Mohawk, Albany and Troy The Upper Delaware Waterfalls at Cayuga Lake The Rock Mountains The Canyons of the Colorado Chicago and Milwaukee A Glance at the Northwest The Mammoth Cave New York and Brooklyn Washington CONDITION: Very Good. (Boards have some spotting mostly at the margins where the fabric color has leached, light wear at edges, moderate wear at corners and spine extremities, gilt on spine letters on V2 is partly eroded, very short tear at bottom of spine joint of front board of V1. The Contents of both volumes are Near Fine with some darkening of the fore-margin of occasional text page or plate. The bindings are tight.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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